However, if handled, it may discharge a pungent smelling exudate from the cloaca as a warning.

In areas close to urbanization, they are also found in barns and under piles of wood.

They have been known to consume a variety of animals including rodents, eggs, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates.

Nevertheless, the diet of an adult milk snake still primarily consists of rodents.

[1] The Sinaloan milk snake mates from early May to late June, sometimes twice a year.

Temperature control is important, as it maintains the animal's feeding response and digestion.